inspire :: ai weiwei

found via magpie and cake

I wish I was currently in London so that I could go see the latest installment of Britian's largest comptemporary art commission that opened up earlier last week. The art piece by artist Ai Weiwei consists of over 100 million porcelain replica sunflower seeds each hand assembled and molded, hand fired and hand painted by inhabitants of Jingdezhen, the 'porcelain capital' of his native China. That's around 150 tons of seeds that has been used to make an inches thick carpet that visitors to the gallery will be encouraged to play in.


The exhibit has been so popular, that it has actually been roped off to due to the number of visitors stepping on the seeds causing a dust to rub off. The concern was that Tate staff might risk respiratory problems from long-term exposure to the porcelain dust being raised by visitors running through the exhibit and kicking through the seeds.


You can check out more of his work here.

inspire :: Martin Böttger

Found a new love this morning ... Aren't these cardboard installations by Berlin artist Martin Böttger absolutely divine? Based on 3D graphic design, the E8 card installation is made from folded cardboard, tape and wood sticks. To see more of his work, click here.

inspire :: post-it installation

(found via Ads of the World and Apartment Therapy)

The world's largest artistic billboard made of post-it notes was made using 112, 640 post-it super sticky notes to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Student Design Contest hosted by Post-it Brand from 3M. The installation, designed by Allison Hilgert, 17, and Ysanne Taylor, 16, from Lecanto High School in Florida, was open to the public for 5 days in the Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall.

inspire :: packing tape web

found via web urbanist

You may be asking yourself what exactly is this an image of? Well, it's a picture of 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of duct tape.

Starting in a small Croatian gallery the art installation, which has been growing larger and larger, then moved inside an abandoned attic before finally moving into the former Viennese Stock Exchange building pictured above. This won't be the final resting stop either. In September, the installation will travel to a public space in the center of Frankfurt, Germany. * whew * I'm not even going to ask how in the world you move something like this!


The spider web large enough for a human family to set up furniture and make a home inside, is suspended five feet in the air from surrounding walls and pillars. Visitors are welcome to crawl, lounge and experience what a human sized spider web would feel like.

This is the 5th tape installation exhibited by the design collective For Use/Numen. The installation took approximately 160 hours and was erected by six workers. You can check out this link for images during the build.